So Stephenie Meyer announced today that she wrote a new thing — her first such thing in two years. It’s a novella called The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. It’s from the point of view of … Bree Tanner. It’ll come out on June 5. Some of the proceeds will go to the Red Cross.

Stimulus Package, the long awaited downloadable content package for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, hit the intertubes this morning. The pack consists of five maps, three all-new ones and two popular locations from developer Infinity Ward’s first Modern Warfare title. The whole 320 MB kaboodle costs 1200, or about $15.

I’m going to step out a little this week. I’m going try some adaptations on for size. Starting with some video games (Dragon Age, God of War) and moving on to some feature films (Terminator) I’m going to see how well these tales translate. FrankenCastle continues his stitched and stilted march, there’s a new hope that’s not a Star Wars …

Finally an answer to the ages-old question of where Pac-Man’s been lately. It seems he’s retired to one of Saturn’s moons. Mimas, as it’s called, shows Pac-Man frozen in full-on chomp mode as he prepares to eat Herschel Crater, which resembles a nice big power pellet.

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The WSJ is reporting that Verizon will land the iPhone this coming fall with production set to ramp up on the CDMA version in September from Pegatron. Oh, and a new iPhone is slated to launch in June or July for AT&T. The former bit of news is important because the WSJ doesn’t just publish any ole …